ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in part 3 of this book. The part shows the evolution of the use of this act and trope in relation to gender and sexuality. It sheds light on the rarely studied material of the pliegos sueltos, which often portrays abduction and enslavement of women by Ottoman Muslim Turks and issues of conversion to Islam. The part investigates cannibalistic women and how such depictions are informed by anxieties of an emerging capitalistic society, the one which develops in the neo-liberal futures. It considers the ambivalence of anthropophagy, both as a destructive process and as one of ritual ingestion, and how it is strongly connected to the potential of female corporeality and reproduction and the anxieties it provokes in a patriarchal society. The part provides information on folklore and fairy tales of old and new as her analysis moves from Charles Perrault’s works to Angela Carter’s novels.
